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[–]millicentfawcett 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've been reading through those comments, horrified, and I'm thinking who are these people? Where did they come from? Then I realise that despite gains for LGB people in law over the past decades the sentiment that same sex attracted people are 'unnatural' just hasn't gone away has it? It's festered under the surface and turned into this nightmare.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah changes in law is one thing, changing how people feel about us is a long term project. They still don’t get us because the public face of us keeps changing. Now it’s all about gender. “Lgb are the ones concerned about gender”

[–]reluctant_commenter 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then I realise that despite gains for LGB people in law over the past decades the sentiment that same sex attracted people are 'unnatural' just hasn't gone away has it? It's festered under the surface and turned into this nightmare.

EXACTLY!!! I mean, I think most of us here on this sub know this. But it is such a common belief among people my age (early 20s) that everything has all been fixed for LGB people, there are basically no homophobic people anymore except for a few Evangelical Christians off in a corner.

As if. I feel like I'm talking into a fucking void every time I try to tell people otherwise.